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Polygonatum biflorum (jointed root)
Smooth Solomon's seal:
Flowers hang from leaf axils: 6 tepals.
Blue-black poisonous berries. Annual stem scar
(seal resembles Star of David)
on starchy white rhizome, edible after boiling in 3 changes of water.
Lilies eaten by deer & rabbits.
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Trillium recurvatum
Prairie Trillium
(erectum=Red sessile=Toad):
3 leaves, sepals, petals; maroon pistils, purple anthers; 6 years to flower.
waking goblin Robin Goodfellow.
Elaiosome.
Prefers to associate with
oaks and hickories rather than beeches and maples.
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Allium tricoccum
Wild Leek:
>White flowers
in umbels after broadly lance-shaped leaves wilt: do not see leaves & flowers together.
Black buckshot-like seeds, swollen bulb, but not true bulb.
In rich soil of maple-beech-hemlock hardwoods.
Vitamin C, HD cholesterol.
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Papaveraceae (Poppy)
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Sanguinaria canadensis
Bloodroot (Red Puccoon):
Sanguinarine: prevents plaque in Colgate Viadent: precancerous lesions.
Rhizome w/ red juice: escharotic (kills skin tissue) body paint, dye.
8-16 petals
fall off, uneven length: square flower?
No nectar, seed pod pops.
Elaiosome,
shade tolerant.
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Dicentra canadensis (2 spurs)
Squirrel Corn:
dissected leaves,
2 petals;
spurs more rounded heart shaped, blooms 1 week later. Corms/tubers resemble
yellow corn kernels just below soil.
Alkaloids poisonous.
Fruit: 10-20 seeded capsule.
Bleeding Heart is Japanese D. spectabilis.
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